Takase eiju

[peterd]

Hello, please may I have opinions on this Tsuba?

Do you think it is genuine or gimie?

 

Many thanks,

Pete

[Curran]

Looks quite real to me.

 

Tengu and Whatshis name?

Classic story here. Last year was reading it in the NY Met Museum of Art, but I don't recall it too well.

 

Some people (usually martial artists into the the tengu mythology) really get into collecting these pieces with Tengu, thus rare I see one on the market that is of any quality.

[kaigunair]

Workmanship looks decent to me.

 

According to haynes, he worked 1775-1800 as a low grade retainer of the Matsudaira Daimyo of Mito. In wakayama's pictured examples, the signature is a little different. Wakayama has pics showing the style of the last character of his name with a different, maybe earlier kao which is more square. The kao on this tsuba is in pics with a different rending of the last character. So maybe this is a "transitional" signature, where he signed in an older style with a newer kao?

 

Oh, just noticed that the kao is cut off when it was fitted. There is alittle variation on what's left of the kao and the examples in wakayama, but not sure if its enough to throw it out of shoshin....

[Curran]

Junichi,

 

If you throw me a scan of Wakayama, I can give me 5cent opinion.

Looking forward to having my books again in 1 month.

[John A Stuart]

looks darn close Curran. Here is a scan. John

[Ford Hallam]

The workmanship appears quite weak to me. And there are significant discrepancies in the way some of the strokes are cut in the mei.

 

Mike Yamasaki has had a few fine examples of this artists work in the past. An image search will bring them up for comparison.